here we have “play clothes” from the menswear company Rogers Peet… …and this swell get-up (below) from Henri Bendel…both Peet and Bendel were well-known in the 1930s. Cole Porter even referred to both companies in his songs…here is the refrain from “I Introduced” (from the ...
Below, hidden in the bushes, Eve changes her clothes after escaping from a group of orphans visiting the zoo. (IMDB) The film made such an impression that even E.B. White had to mention it in the opening lines of his “Notes and Comment”… ANIMAL CRACKERS…Filmmakers went all out ...
“The way this collective group has come together has created that environment and culture,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said amid a celebratory clubhouse, his clothes drenched in beer. “There are a lot of people that contributed to that, but it really does take an...
To create the effect of invisibility, Rains was covered head to foot with black velvet tights and wore whatever clothes he required for the scene. The invisibility scenes were then shot against a black set, the negative areas later manually masked to create the effect of invisibility. (IMDB) ...
Upon her death in 1974, New Yorker editor William Shawn remarked that Long “was the first American fashion critic to approach fashion as an art and to criticize women’s clothes with independence, intelligence, humor and literary style.” * * * The Age of Giants Architecture critic George S...
…Lord & Taylor took to the skies to promote their “country clothes” to the smart set… …and cartoonist Herbert Roese, who apparently never published a cartoon in The New Yorker, turned in this very New Yorker-looking illustration for Piel’s… …on to our cartoonists, we begin with ...
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The Indian designer gave a graphic edge to his slim-line clothes. 5PM 30 SepSpecial Report: Finding Clothes in the Concept (FashionandStyle)Anne Valerie Hash sent out a strong and sporty collection with a surprisingly youthful soul. 5PM 30 Sep...
What started as a single department store in San Lorenzo, California, erupted into a West Coast empire. Selling work pants and school clothes, the department store was frequented by middle-class families. At its peak,Mervyn's had 300 stores in 16 states. Eventually, owner Mervin Morris sold...
Long concluded that in the end, it didn’t matter what men thought about women’s clothes, but letting them “yap” about such things was a good way for them to blow off some steam. Check out these patronizing examples from an illustrated guide for women published in 1938 by Click Parade...